ABBOTT GROUP OF COLLEGES, ISLAMABAD

Madina Plaza, Main Lehtrar Road, Near Khanna Pul, Islamabad.

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Course Outline: B. Ed(1.5 Years)-I

Subject: Educational Measurement and Evaluation
Week Topics / Activities
Introduction
1 Concepts of Test, Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation, Purposes, Principles and Scope of
Measurement and Evaluation in Testing
2 Evaluation and Evaluation Procedures. Steps / Phases of Evaluation
Concepts of Educational Aims, Goals and Objectives
3
Instructional objectives, Methods of stating objectives , Selection of objectives
Tools of Measurement and Evaluation
4
Observation, Classroom Observation
5 Tools of Measurement and Evaluation, Interview & Types of Interview
6 Questionnaire Design, Open ended questions ,Close ended questions, Likert Scale
7 Concept of Classroom Assessment , Characteristics and Role of Classroom Assessment
8 Types of Test, Subjective type tests
9 Mid Term Exam
10 Objective Type Test: True/False, Multiple Choice, Completion Matching & Short Answer
11 Qualities of a Test, Reliability , Validity
12 Some Issues Related to Test, Planning , Organizing
13 Some Issues Related to Test, Administering , Scoring , Item Analysis
14 Interpretation of Test Scores , Score and Types of Score , Graphic Representation of scores
15 Central Tendency , Mean , Mode , Median
Grading and Reporting, Procedures of Grading, Percentage Form, Ranking/Position Form,
16
Alphabetical Training
Reporting the Grades., To Students, To Parents, In Parent meeting, Counseling of Students after
17
reporting the grade
18 Final Term Exam

Suggested Readings

 Educational Measurement & Evaluation, by S.M. Shaid Published by Majeed Book depot.
 Educational Measurement and Evaluation Code No. 514 Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad
 Rehman Mehmooda (1999), Evaluation Techniques. Peshawer Ijaz Printers Pakistan.
 H Jerome Freiberg (1999) School Climate: Measuring, Improving and Sustaining Healthy Learning
Environments, Routledge
 Kleinsasser (1996) Effective Teacher Evaluation: A guide for Principles Amazon
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Subject: Educational Research

Week Topics / Activities
Meaning and concept of Research in Education. Education vs literacy and
1
Learning. Sources of Knowledge and Validation Methods
2 Method of Science, Research process
3 Characteristics of Research
4 Types of Research
5 Research Proposal Part 1
6 Research Proposal Part 2
7 Population and Sampling Procedures
8 Tools for Data Collection
9 Experimental Research Designs
10 Data analysis and organization
11 Correlation Research
12 Research Ethics
13 Research Report Writing Part 1
14 Research Report Writing Part 2
15 Reference Writing
16 Research Article

Text Book :-
Raza, K.K. (2008). Research Techniques. Ikhwan Publishers, Peshawar.

Reference:-
Best, J.W. & Kahn, J.V.(Updated Edition).Research in Education. USA.
(https://ww2.odu.edu/~jritz/attachments/reined.pdf).
Gay, L. R. (Updated Edition). Educational Research. Prentice Hall,
(https://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Educational_Research.html?id=oygi
AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y).
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Madina Plaza, Main Lehtrar Road, Near Khanna Pul, Islamabad.
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Subject: Foundations of Education

Week Topics / Activities

Major Foundations of Education

Islamic Foundation of Education
1
 Islamic perspective on education
 Major sources of knowledge in Islam
 The Quran, Hadith
Islamic Foundation of Education
 Al-Ghazali’s educational philosophy
2  Ibn-e-Khaldun’s educational philosophy
 Allama Iqbal’s educational Philosophy
Quaid-e-Azam’s vision of education
Philosophical Foundation of Education
 Philosophy and education
 Major Philosophical Thoughts
3
 Idealism
 Realism
 Pragmatism
 Existentialism
Major Educational Philosophy
 Perennialism
4  Essentialism
 Progressivism
Reconstructionism
Psychological Foundations of Education
 Behavioral Theory of Learning
5  Cognitive Learning Theory
 Constructivism Theory of Learning
Humanism Theory of Learning
Learning and Maturation
6  Learning
 Maturation
Individual Differences and Learning
 Intra-individual differences
7  Gifted and talented students
 Mental Retardation
Academic performances and aptitudes
Socio-Economic Foundation of Education
 Concept of society and culture
8  Social condition and education
 Economic conditions and education
Politics and education
Aims of Education
9  Aims, Goals and objectives of education
Taxonomy of objectives
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Week Topics / Activities

Aims of Education
10  Aims and Objectives of Education in Pakistan
Aims and Objectives of National Education Policy - 2009
Historical Development of Education in Pakistan
Pre-Pakistan Period (712 – 1947)
11
 Arab Rule (712-809)
Turkish Period (976 – 1526)
Historical Development of Education in Pakistan , Mughal Period (1526-
12
1707)
13 Historical Development of Education in Pakistan , British Rule (1707-1947)
Historical Development of Education in Pakistan
14  Period from 1947-1958
 Period from 1959-1971
Period from 1972 to till date
Trends in Education
 Education as investment
 Human resources development
 Technological development and education
 Continuing education
15  Educations for international understanding
Education and world of work
Modes of Education
 Informal education
 Formal education
 Non-formal education
Distance education
Problems and Issues in Education in Pakistan
 Literacy
 Universalization of primary education
 Out of School Children
 Population education
16  Environmental educational
 Female education
 Discipline on campus
 Special education
 Drug education
The Future of Education in Pakistan
Text Book :-
Daun, H., & Arjmand, R. (Eds.). (2018). Handbook of Islamic Education. Springer.
Reference:-
Canestrari, A. (2009). Foundation of Education. New York: Sage Publications.
Faden P.D. & Vogel R.M. (2003). Methods of Teaching Boston, Mc Graw hills.
Jocye B, Weil, M, &Calhoun E. (2000). Models of teaching 6th Ed Boston Allyn and Bacon
Semel, S.WF. (2010). Foundations of education: The essential texts. USA: Routledge.
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Madina Plaza, Main Lehtrar Road, Near Khanna Pul, Islamabad.
Contact: 051-2614928/38, 0334-8650869 Email: agcislamabad@gmail.com

Subject: General Methods of Teaching

Week Topics / Activities

1 Definitions of Teaching
Effective teaching: concept, Role of teacher for conducive learning environment
2 Professional characteristics of an effective teacher
The concepts of Teaching method, strategies and techniques
LESSON PLANNING, The need for lesson planning, Approaches to lesson planning, Course & Unit
3
Planning
4 Weekly & daily Planning, Steps in lesson Plan, The Lesson plan format
5 INQUIRY METHOD, The Inductive method, Deductive method, Scientific method
6 The problem-solving approach, Advantages and limitations of inquiry method
ACTIVITY MEHODS, Individual Project, Group Project, Research project, Advantages and limitations of
7
activity method
8 Research project, Advantages and limitations of activity method
9 MID TERM EXAM
DISCUSSION METHOD, Classroom discussion, Planning the discussion, Organizing the Discussion
10
Practicing in asking questions
Practicing in answering the question, Assessing the discussion, Advantages and limitations of
11
discussion method
12 STUDENT MOTIVATION, Concept of motivation, Intrinsic motivation, Extrinsic motivation
13 Theories of motivation, Strategies of motivate student
COOPERATIVE LEARNING, Cooperative learning, Techniques of cooperative learning, Advantages and
14
limitation of cooperative method
TEACHING SKILLS, Set induction, Presentation, Identify learning difficulties of students, Prepare lesson
15
according to individual needs, Students’ evaluation
TEACHING TOOLS, Selecting the audio-visual material, Planning to use the materials, preparing for the
16
audio-visual activity
Kinds of AV material, White board / marker, Charts, posters, maps, graphs & models, Test books
17 Handouts, Projectors, Multimedia, ungrouped data, Measures of dispersion (range, standard
Deviation, variance), Descriptive statics in Educational Research
18 FINAL TERM EXAM

Text Book :- Ayoukarm, Govald, Modern Methods and Techniques of Teachings Philadephia. Open
University Press
Reference:-
Baron, J and Sternberg, T, (Eds) (1987) Teaching thinking Skills; Theory and Practice, New
York; Freeman
Barrow, R. (1990) Understanding Skills; Thinking, Feeling and Caring London. Ontario:
Athouse.
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Madina Plaza, Main Lehtrar Road, Near Khanna Pul, Islamabad.
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Subject: Human Development & Learning

Week Topics / Activities
Introduction , Psychology – Meaning & Nature , Branches of Psychology
1
Methods of Educational Psychology,
Child as a Developing Organism, Growth & Development , Emotional Development , Social
2
Development
Physical Development , Intellectual Development , Implications of Developmental
3
Psychology in Education
4 Learning , Meaning & Definition, Characteristics and process
5 Factors affecting learning, Transfer of Learning
6 Approaches of Learning, Behavioral , Cognitive
7 Social , Humanistic
8 Learning Theories and their Impact on Education, Trial and Error Theory
9 Conditioning Theory, Piaget’s Theory
10 Gestalt field Theory, Implications in Education
11 Motivation, Nature, Characteristics and function, Types of Motivation
12 Factors and Techniques related to motivation in classroom , Maslow’s Theory of Motivation
Intelligence, Definition and Nature , Role of heredity & environment
Assessment of intelligence
13
a. Individual tests
b. Group tests.
14 Concept of IQ. Theories of Intelligence
Individual Differences , Importance of individual differences, Different kinds of children
15
and their characteristics
Dealing with individual differences in classroom , Teaching according to individual
16
differences

Text Book :-
 Raza, K.K. (2014) Educational Psychology. Hafeez Printers, Peshawar

Reference:-
 Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Applications of flow in human development and education (pp. 153-
172). Dordrecht: Springer.
 Mtawa, N. N. (2019). Human Development and Community Engagement Through Service-learning:
The Capability Approach and Public Good in Education. Springer Nature.
 Nagarajan, K., & Seetharaman, D. (2012). Psychology of learning and human development.
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Subject: Curriculum Development & Implementation

Week Topics / Activities

Re-conceptualization of Curriculum. Traditional and progressive concepts of curriculum. Elements

1
of curriculum-objectives, contents, teaching methods and evaluation
Commonplaces of curriculum – subject matter, teacher, learner and milieu.
2
Role of hidden curriculum in education
Role of educational ideologies in curriculum development , Role of school leadership including
3
teacher in curriculum development
4 Role of information technology in curriculum
Foundations of curriculum Development, Philosophical/Ideological Foundations. , Historical
5
Foundations
6 Psychological Foundations, Socio-cultural Foundations , Economic Foundations.
7 Curriculum Theories and Practices , Objective model , Contents model
8 Process model, Integrated vs. differentiated curriculum , Teacher vs. student curriculum
9 Mid Term Exam
Teacher vs. bottom-up curriculum practices , Contemporary issues of curriculum theorization and
10
practices.
Curriculum Reforms in Pakistan , Review of curriculum reforms in Pakistan in line with national
11
education policies, Review of curriculum change process in Pakistan
12 Issues of curriculum change in Pakistan , Curriculum development process in Pakistan
Current Trend in Assessment , Traditional and progressive notion of assessment, Relationship between
13
curriculum instruction, and assessment
Authentic assessment and implications , Performance based assessment and implications , Criterion
14
referenced assessment and implications
15 Norms referenced assessment and implications , Portfolio assessment
Curriculum Monitoring and Evaluation, Traditional and progressive notion of curriculum monitoring
16 and evaluation , Relationship between monitoring and evaluation. Forms of curriculum evaluation-
formative and summative
Role of evaluation in curriculum improvement. , Processes and practices of curriculum evaluation.
17
Curriculum evaluation in Pakistan and implication. , Contemporary issues of curriculum evaluation.
18 Final Term Exam

Text Book :-
Glatthorn, A. A., Boschee, F., & Whitehead, B. M. (2005). Curriculum Leadership: Development
and Implementation. SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
Reference:-
Finch, C. R., & Crunkilton, J. R. (1999). Curriculum development in vocational and technical
education. planning, content, and implementation. Allyn and Bacon, 160 Gould Street,
Needham Heights, MA 02494.